Penmaen Pool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DCDC ECEC FCFC GHGC IHIC BCBC BCBC JCJC BCBC| For the Visitors' Book at the Inn | A |
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| Who long for rest who look for pleasure | B |
| Away from counter court or school | C |
| O where live well your lease of leisure | B |
| But here at here at Penmaen Pool | C |
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| You'll dare the Alp you'll dart the skiff | D |
| Each sport has here its tackle and tool | C |
| Come plant the staff by Cadair cliff | D |
| Come swing the sculls on Penmaen Pool | C |
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| What's yonder Grizzled Dyphwys dim | E |
| The triple hummocked Giant's stool | C |
| Hoar messmate hobs and nobs with him | E |
| To halve the bowl of Penmaen Pool | C |
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| And all the landscape under survey | F |
| At tranquil turns by nature's rule | C |
| Rides repeated topsyturvy | F |
| In frank in fairy Penmaen Pool | C |
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| And Charles's Wain the wondrous seven | G |
| And sheep flock clouds like worlds of wool | H |
| For all they shine so high in heaven | G |
| Shew brighter shaken in Penmaen Pool | C |
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| The Mawddach how she trips though throttled | I |
| If floodtide teeming thrills her full | H |
| And mazy sands all water wattled | I |
| Waylay her at ebb past Penmaen Pool | C |
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| But what's to see in stormy weather | B |
| When grey showers gather and gusts are cool | C |
| Why raindrop roundels looped together | B |
| That lace the face of Penmaen Pool | C |
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| Then even in weariest wintry hour | B |
| Of New Year's month or surly Yule | C |
| Furred snows charged tuft above tuft tower | B |
| From darksome darksome Penmaen Pool | C |
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| And ever if bound here hardest home | J |
| You've parlour pastime left and who'll | C |
| Not honour it ale like goldy foam | J |
| That frocks an oar in Penmaen Pool | C |
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| Then come who pine for peace or pleasure | B |
| Away from counter court or school | C |
| Spend here your measure of time and treasure | B |
| And taste the treats of Penmaen Pool | C |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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